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March 11, 2026 12 mins

It's Murphy vs. his calendar, and he doesn't even know what day it is. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy, Sam and Jody after the show podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I am questioning my sanity this morning.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Oh we are too, Murphy.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, you do that every day, don't you.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Huh no comment.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
So, you know, the best way to explain this is
when you encounter a problem and you think you fixed it,
and then it comes back again, and then you think
you fixed it, and then it comes back a third time.
And what happened is so a couple of weeks ago,
I had an appointment that was scheduled for and I

(00:32):
went to that appointment at five o'clock in the afternoon
as it showed up on my calendar. Yeah, and when
I walked into the waiting area, I was told, man,
what are you doing here today? And It's like, well,
I've We've got our appointment today And the answer was no, no,
we don't, No, that's next week. Oh like really, okay,

(00:52):
all right, well thanks sorry. I look at my calendar
real quick and I scrolled down and I had What
happened is I had two different calendars entries and I
had put one in. It was just a clerical error.
When I made my appointment, i'd put it in a
week early. But I also had the second appointment in there,
so I was doing so I don't know what I
was doing, and I'm sure Jody will explain to you

(01:13):
in a minute, Sam that she doesn't really trust me
in calendars either. But anyway, so no problem, it's fixed
scheduled for the next week. I go to the appointment
next week, no big deal. But before I went to
the appointment the following week, I looked on the calendar
and I saw I had yet another entry the day
before for the same appointment. Like, okay, well, I can't

(01:35):
have this appointment on Tuesday and Wednesday. What's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:38):
So you've now got three three calendar of things for
the same appointment.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Correct, Well, actually, so it wasn't everything the exact same appointment.
It's a recurring appointment I keep every two weeks and
so or every three weeks. But we changed, We kind
of changed the structure of the meetings and the appointment
and my calendar, and so when I changed them, I
didn't remove some. So I called and said, hey, guess what,

(02:03):
I've got this appointment on my calendar. Am I supposed
to be there today or tomorrow? And he said that's tomorrow.
I'm like, okay, good, I'm glad I called. I'd have
shown up again today. Wrong day. So yesterday I have
an appointment on my calendar, and you went.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
To the appointment though, were you supposed to be there?

Speaker 2 (02:21):
I went to the appointment.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Were you supposed to be there?

Speaker 2 (02:24):
And this time he said nothing. And what's really ironic
about this is it's my counselor who I see every
three weeks. Yeah, and well, so we had I mean,
i'd like you to see him every week. Here's the thing.
I walked in and it had been a really long
day yesterday, and so I sit down. I'm like, all right, peace,

(02:46):
this is great, this is awesome. He walks in, opens
the door. I'm like, hey, I'm so glad to see you,
and I'm here on time today, you know, no problems
with the calendar, ha ha ha. And so we walk
back to the back, we do our session, and we leave.
And then this morning, as I'm about to do the
show with you, I look down and see that I've

(03:08):
got his appointment on my calendar for it today. You're
exhausting me with this, so yeah, I know, well this
is why I'm questioning my sanity. But let me explain
to you what happened this time. It's not that I
put two entries into the calendar. I thought yesterday was Wednesday,
all day long yesterday, and so was. I basically did
everything that I was supposed to do today. Yes, the

(03:32):
bottom line here where I'm getting with this is I
think I have probably reached a mental maximum on a
lot of the things that I'm doing. It's the problem
is when I go back to back to back to
back without stopping and pausing to take a break. Go ahead, Jody,
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
I just when you started talking about the calendar, I
got a headache because it's been years you have since
calendars became electronic and became, you know, a part of
the devices. Which I'm not saying you need a paper
calendar or on a desk, although I that's a solid,
solid calendar you have. For as long as I can remember,

(04:08):
you've been fussing about merging your calendars. Well, this calendar
needs to merge with this one, because I have this
calendar for this sort of business and this is personal
and this is business, and you are forcing technology to
do the things that it's supposed to be able to do,
and yet it fails. You and so your system is
not working. There's something about the technical thing that you

(04:31):
are forcing with these calendars. E. Merging two different calendars
I think is the problem. And don't you have like
three different calendar apps you're trying to use.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
But these are all on the same app unfortunately. And
I hear you, because yes, I have had issues with
that in the past. Part of that was trying to
change from devices to another and you don't want to
lose things going into a different ecosystem, right exactly. But no,
this is all this is all on me. This is
all on The first mistake that I made was when
I was changing the dates in my calendar. I'm not

(05:02):
gonna blame iPhone, but that's that is part of what
this was. When I went from Android to iPhone. The
iPhone's calendar and the way even Microsoft Outlook works in
the iPhone calendar versus Android, it's slightly different. And so
when I was scrolling for the dates, and maybe this
is something I to send to Microsoft so I can

(05:22):
blame it on them. Yeah, but no, when you scroll
it still says the current month at the top, even
though you're changing dates, and you have to really close
to see the little tiny letters that say April, May, June, July.
And so when I was scheduling the March appointments, I
was still in February, and so yeah, so that's how

(05:43):
I screwed up the very first time. And so really
what happened the first time it was me entering the
next month's date in the wrong month. The second was
the actual appointment that was correct that I didn't have
to change of it makes sense. That's why I called, Yeah,
sure is your head?

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, Sam, Well, I'm okay. So you were making your
March appointments in February and yesterday was actually today, That's what.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
And that was just a visual error that was me,
you know, in your brain. I think everybody experiences that
right where you somehow land and you mentally or just
on a.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Different at the grocery store, I think I'm grabbing chicken
soup and I'll grab you know, some other tomato soup.
That's that's a visual error in my brain. And I
could swear I had put the right soup in the bathroom.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
I used to have that. One of my exes and
I used to have a running inside joke called the
cream corn incident. When I did that one time I
was buying canned corn and I grabbed cream corn instead. Yeah,
I'm thinking, oh, this is it.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
And come to the wrong corn.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, well I don't like cream corn.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
I was grabbing.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Sorry.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
So yeah, mistakes like that, that's what we're calling them.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Truth of the matter is, I can pick on you
all day about you having too many apps and too
many calendar and you do. If anybody I've ever known
in my life, you push technology to its limits because
what it should do. And I think sometimes it fails
you because of that. But truth be told, you are overscheduled.
You have too many things going on, and so it's

(07:14):
not like you need a better calendar system. You need
an assistant.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well you know those are electronic too, if you really
go But maybe you're suggesting I don't go that route, Jody.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
I don't know, but.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
I have a silver lining for you here, Murphy. What said,
aren't you going on your personal retreat next weekend?

Speaker 2 (07:33):
I am, yeah, Well I think it is this weekend.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Trust me, I know when you're going.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
It's next weekend, Yes it is.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, you could work on that calendar, streamlining calendar and
straightening calendar out could be top of your list really at.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
The end of the day, at the day truth and
I will make this a point really for the retreat.
What this is about is me not pausing. It's me. Look,
I'm the one that's responsible for how many things I
put on my calendar and if I don't take a
breath between and it's just been a comedy of things
for the last couple of days where literally everything has
been back to back. When I know my true signal

(08:12):
for that should be when I find myself eating at
my desk for lunch, which is what I did yesterday,
then I'm probably on that path where I haven't really
stopped breathe. Give your brain a second to really reset,
so then you're seeing things clearly, because it's really weird
how many errors you'll make when you don't actually give
your brain a little bit of a break. We're not
as humans, We're not designed to go straight through. Life

(08:36):
is not a sprint. It's a marathon. And even if
you have a lot of things to do in one day,
you're supposed to take a five minute It doesn't take
much time. It's literally a five minute break, and you
don't look at your phone, You don't do anything like that.
You stop for five minutes and you just breathe, and
it's amazing what happens when you reset your brain to
do that. Now, if I had done that yesterday, I

(08:58):
probably would have realized I would have been breathing and said, oh,
I don't have a five o'clock appointment today.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
But you know, a personal question about mistakes, Murphy, because
this is something that happens to me. I want to
make sure it's like a general thing and it's not
just me losing it when you when you when you
start to make those kind of mistakes, do they start
to come hound on top of each other.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Well, that's what I feel like. This one was because
I actually had to call and I left a voicemail
this morning for him, you know, because you know we're
pretty early, you know, double checking my next appointment. No,
I'm just kidding.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
What was You had your appointment with him yesterday?

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, I called to apologize. No, No, No, my appointment
is today. I met with him. I went to see
him yesterday. That's my point. And he never said anything
about it.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
I didn't catch that earlier. Yeah, he he knows. There's
no point this De's going to show up when he
thinks he has an appointment. I'm just going to take it.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
I have been seeing him for ten years. Yea, this
is not But wait a second, that's right. I know
you live with me, and I know that I've created
some I know I've created a reputation, but uh, this
is this is a new issue. I've not had this
with him in ten years. It's only been the last
couple of weeks for two different reasons. But I called.
I left the message and just said, hey, look, I

(10:14):
just looked at my calendar and I see my appointments today.
You didn't say anything about this yesterday. That's really kind
of you. But I just wanted to apologize, and you
know that was that?

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Was that nice? Nice?

Speaker 2 (10:25):
The bottom line is, you know yesterday the was just
a heated rush. I had to stand back to you
what you're saying there as you start to question your
sanity about the things compounding. But when I really stopped
and looked at this one logically, even though I don't know,
maybe I explained it confusingly at the beginning of the podcast,
is you know it's these are easily isolated mistakes. The
first one was a clerical error on my part, and

(10:48):
I acted on that clerical error. This time, it was
me moving so fast throughout the day without giving my
brain a chance to breathe that I actually didn't stop
to see, Oh, today is Tuesday, not Wednesday. I'm talking
about yesterday. Okay, yeah, right now, today's night to day.
I know that. But if if i'd have slowed down enough,

(11:10):
I probably would have caught that yesterday. But I didn't know.
Can you see what I'm saying, Jody, I mean.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
That's really that kind of day, and busy, successful, motivated
people have those sort of days. The trick is to
not let that day run you, for you to run
that day and give yourself five minute breaks.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well, I was pretty mortified when I realized that this morning,
and Sam, yes, I did begin to question my sanity
and I realized, okay, well that's okay, Yes, it's embarrassing
and I feel bad about Okay, So now let's let
go of that, yes and figure out how do we
do that for the future. And so that's when you
stop and when you take the emotion out of it, realize, Okay,
the air I made yesterday was literally trying to go

(11:50):
the next thing, the next thing, the next thing, Because
I had at one point yesterday I think I had
four calls back to back with no breaks in between.
The point we're in the third call, I realized, I've
got to go to the bathroom crying. I have to
pee crying.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, okay, so clear. I was gonna say, are we
clear of what day it is?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Though?

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Today it is Wednesday?

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, it's Wednesday. Yes, I know, I'm really clear on it.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Now, more importantly, when is your next appointment?

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Honestly, Sam, I got a look at myself, which one
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